Policy and politics of Obamacare delay and its continuing threat to religious liberty, debating immigration reform, and remembering Gettysburg

Policy and politics of Obamacare delay, Joel Belz on the shipwreck of Obamacare, interdenominational opposition to contraceptive mandate, family-friendly films do best at box office, debating immigration reform, Andrée Seu Peterson on declaring independence, Obama global warming initiative promises higher energy costs, markets and economy, Jonathan Last on book ‘What to Expect When No One’s Expecting,’ Gettysburg at 150, culture talk with John Stonestreet, The History Book, and more

Program Segments

Hour A, Segment 1

The policy and politics of the Obamacare delay

Commentator Joel Belz: The shipwreck of Obamacare

Kent Covington is a senior correspondent for The World and Everything in It.

To break down the delay in the implementation of Obamacare, Kent spoke with two political experts: Chris Jacobs, a health policy expert at The Heritage Foundation, and Geoff Skelley, the media relations coordinator at the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.

Joel Belz is founder of WORLD News Group. Read his recent column on Obamacare, published in the July 13 edition of WORLD Magazine.

Hour A, Segment 2

Catholic and Southern Baptist leaders held a joint press conference to announce open letter opposing the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare. The press conference featured Catholic Archbishop William Lori and Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty president Russell Moore.

Hour A, Segment 4

Debating immigration reform

WORLD News Group VP Warren Cole Smith spoke with Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, who is in favor of the Senate immigration bill, and Center for Immigration Studies executive director Mark Krikorian, who is against the Senate immigration bill.

Hour B, Segment 1

Kent Covington is a senior correspondent for The World and Everything in It.

E. Calvin Beisner is spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation and is also an author and speaker on the application of the Biblical world view to economics, government, and environmental policy.

Warren Cole Smith is vice president of WORLD News Group and regularly covers business and economic news. Read his weekly finance column “Dollars and Sense.”

Hour B, Segment 2

Notable Speech: Jonathan Last on his book What to Expect When No One’s Expecting

Jonathan Last is a senior writer for The Weekly Standard. His recent book What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster (Encounter, 2013) was recognized as one of the top books of the year in WORLD Magazine’s 2013 annual books issue.

Hour B, Segment 5

July 8, 1776—Col. John Nixon gives the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd gathered at Independence Square in Philadelphia.

July 8, 1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York City for the first time.

July 9, 1896—William Jennings Bryan caused a sensation at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago with his "cross of gold" speech denouncing supporters of the gold standard. Bryan went on to win the party's nomination.